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Encyclopedia > Danger Within
Danger Within
Directed by Don Chaffey
Produced by Colin Lesslie
Written by Eric Ambler
Starring Richard Todd
Bernard Lee
Michael Wilding
Richard Attenborough
Distributed by British Lion Films
Release date(s) 1959
Running time 101 min
Country Flag of United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language English

Danger Within is a 1959 British war film set in a Prisoner of war camp in Northern Italy during the summer of 1943. Richard Todd (born June 11, 1919) is a British actor. ... Bernard Lee as M in The Man with the Golden Gun Bernard Lee (January 10, 1908 – January 16, 1981) was a British actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films. ... Michael Wilding could refer to one of two well-known people: Michael Wilding the actor. ... Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born August 29, 1923) is a prolific English film and stage actor, and Academy Award, BAFTA and three-time Golden Globe winning director and producer. ... British Lion Films Corporation is a film production and distribution company active under several forms since 1919. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The war film is a film genre that has to do with warfare, usually focusing on naval, air, or land battles, but sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training, or other related subjects. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...


Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After a clever escape plan fails the Escape commitee led by Richard Todd suspect that there is an informer amongst there ranks, the finger of blame initialy points at a captured Greek officer but when the prisoners find him dead in there tunnel, all thoughts of an informer die down. To explain his death to the Italians the Escape commitee place the Greek Officers body in an abandoned tunnel within the camp and inform the Italians he was killed by a roof fall. The Sadistic Captain Benucci (played by Peter Arne) charges one of the POWs (played by Donald Houston) with the murder of the Greek officer, the escape commitee knowing that this is not true, form a plan to get Donald Houston and two other Officers out of the camp before he can be shot.The plan entails the three British Officers (Donald Houston,Peter Jones & Ian Lander )scaling the Camp fence with a ladder constructed from two Rugby posts , the plan fails with Captain Benucci waiting and then shooting the three of them at the excact spot where they have scaled the fence. Richard Todd (born June 11, 1919) is a British actor. ... Peter Arne (born 29 September 1920 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, died 1 August 1983) is an actor best known for various performances in British film and television. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... Donald Houston (November 6, 1923 — October 13, 1991) was an impassive, hardworking Welsh actor whose first two films - The Blue Lagoon (1949) with Jean Simmons, and A Run for Your Money (1949) with Sir Alec Guinness - were highly successful. ... Peter Jones in an episode of Rumpole of the Bailey Peter Jones (June 12, 1920 – April 10, 2000) was an English actor, born at Wem in Shropshire. ...


The race is then on to find the informer and for the rest of the camp to escape enmasse before the camp is handed over to the Germans as part of the Italian Armistice. The escape plan devised by SBO Bernard Lee is for the prisoners to make there escape during the day, under cover of a production of Hamlet in the Theatre hut by a group of POWs led by Dennis Price. The Armistice with Italy is an armistice that occurred on September 8, 1943, during World War II. It was signed by Italy and the Allied armed forces, who were occupying the southern half of the country at the time. ... Bernard Lee as M in The Man with the Golden Gun Bernard Lee (January 10, 1908 – January 16, 1981) was a British actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films. ... Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. ... Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price (June 23, 1915 – October 6, 1973) was a British actor. ...

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